Loading Search Box

Tag Archives: beets

Posted August 18, 2012 by

Cleaning Up the Small Garden Both the big garden in the back of the yard, and this small garden are all out of sorts. I have taken on a couple of extra consulting jobs to save a little extra money before school starts, and the garden got the short end of the stick. This morning [...]

Small garden before

Categories: Fridley Farmer

Tags: , , , , , , .

2 Comments.

Posted July 19, 2012 by

Beets Are Ready Beets are ready! We’ve had beets with two meals now. The first time I broiled them with crushed garlic and olive oil. The second time Caroline made glazed beets. We’ve been picking only as many beets as we were ready to eat, in hopes that the remaining beets will grow larger. Sweet [...]

Cutting off beet tops

Categories: Fridley Farmer

Tags: , , .

1 Comment.

Posted June 17, 2012 by

The Good Stuff As part of getting back on top of my gardening, I took a tour of the garden tonight and looked closely at how everything is doing. Despite my neglect, some things are doing pretty well. Here’s the rundown. Apples: The bagged apples that didn’t fall of are doing well. Looking nice and [...]

Black Rot on Our Grapes

Categories: Fridley Farmer

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , .

No Comments.

Posted April 7, 2012 by

I did it! I started planting. I put in the peas, onions, carrots, spinach, lettuce, corn and beets. I put them in on Wednesday (the 4th) but I just haven’t had a chance to write it up. Calvin, my almost 4-year-old was my helper buddy. He was very deliberate with planting, and put the seeds [...]

Calvin planting peas

Categories: Articles, Fridley Farmer

Tags: , , , , , , , , .

No Comments.

Posted March 14, 2012 by

Happily, my garden orders will only be about $100 this year compared to $200 + dirt money we spent last year and the year before. The garden will be a little bit smaller which partly accounts for the decreased cost. The vine borers were so bad with the pumpkins last year that I’m not going [...]

Categories: Fridley Farmer

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , .

No Comments.

Posted September 1, 2011 by

Today was a good gardening day so far. I spent a while picking and watering everything in the yard, and I’m headed to the community garden in a little while. Here’s today’s harvest. A bunch of non-cherry tomatoes, even more cherry tomatoes, purple beans, green beans, a single lonely beet, one small carrot, a single [...]

September 1 Harvest

Categories: Fridley Farmer

Tags: , , , , , , , , .

No Comments.

Posted August 9, 2010 by

Like I said in the last post, the garden has been working overtime since late July. Here are some of the happenings we have been enjoying: Aside: Just for fun this post is scheduled to go live at 8/9/10 11:12 (using American dates). Tomatoes I have more than 25 tomato plants in 5 or 6 [...]

A beautiful tomato

Categories: Fridley Farmer

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , .

1 Comment.

Posted July 26, 2010 by

Here’s a real life example of an basic Brazilian lunch, even though we had it for dinner this time around. This is something pretty typical, which I would have eaten on any given day with my host family as an exchange student or at meals with church members when I was a missionary. The only [...]

Beans and rice with zucchini closeup

Categories: Fridley Farmer, Something Interesting

Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , .

1 Comment.

Posted July 2, 2010 by

Turnips Rock! Turnips are one of those root vegetables that many people don’t eat. I’m not talking about people who can’t fry an egg, I’m talking about people who wouldn’t flinch at the idea of making home made mashed potatoes or making egg salad sandwiches from scratch. People who already possess the skills to enjoy [...]

Eat This Turnip

Categories: Fridley Farmer, Something Interesting

Tags: , , , , , .

1 Comment.